Superintendent of public instruction Tony Bennett will speak today about Indiana's current public education system and his plans for the 2012 legislative session in a meeting with the Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce and the Muncie community.
Brenda Brumfield, director of community and government relations, said the meeting is part of a program from the Chamber of Commerce. In the past, the Chamber of Commerce has invited Gov. Mitch Daniels, Rep. Mike Pence and Sen. Richard Lugar.
"I work with the Chamber of Commerce's committee of Business/Education Partnership, and one of the things we do is we bring elected officials for the community to listen to them and ask questions to them," she said. "We thought about bringing Dr. Bennett to talk about the state of public education in Indiana as well as share his goals in the 2012 legislative session."
The meeting will be held at 11 a.m. at the Ball State Alumni Center, next to Scheumann Stadium. There was a registration fee of $20 per person. Brumfield said she had 114 reserved seats, and though walk-ins are not encouraged, the Chamber could try to accommodate those who decide to attend last minute.
Brumfield said the meeting will not only benefit the Muncie community, but also might also benefit Bennett.
"It will also help for him to get an idea of what the business community in Muncie thinks about the public education system in Indiana," she said.
Larry Strange, coordinator of the Muncie Action Plan, said the organization encouraged the community to attend the event because of their initiatives with emphasis on early education.
"Muncie Action Plan provided the info to our group because we think early childhood education is an important for the development of the community," he said.
Strange said the Muncie Action Plan is planning to work with non-for-profit organizations to create programs that would provide books to families that don't have the resources.
"What Muncie Action Plan currently is focused on developing programs and capacity at a local level that will provide this kind of resources ensuring success for kids from brith to Kindergarten," he said. "We want to set up programs to do this."
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